Please help me. On Friday we had the plumbers remove a large steam radiator out of my daughter's room and had them install it downstairs. Upstairs was too hot, downstairs too cold, made sense. In place of the one taken from daughter's room, the plumber installed a smaller cast iron? radiator. As soon as the thing was in her room, even prior to installation, it was emitting a strong odor. We had an identical one installed in our master bedroom, as there was no radiator in there when we recently bought this house. Our identical radiator had no odor, so I asked the plumber about this and he said "Oh it will, once installed and heat kicks on." And he was right, once the heat was running through it, the same smell came out. The one in my daughters room, however, smells strong when the radiator is on or not. The smell has overtaken her room. She is only 17 months old and I am not comfortable having her breathe this in.
The plumber said this is "new radiator smell," that it comes from oil inside the radiator around the threading (something like that). I have also heard it could be the primer. the plumber said 24 hours, a plumbing supply house told me two weeks for this smell to go away. Meanwhile, I cannot run these radiators at night when we are in the bedrooms sleeping cause it smells so bad.... and it's the middle of winter! I don't think I can stomach this one more day and I don't know what to do. I tried scrubbing the radiator with lemons, soap, cleaning sprays... it is not working. There is no name on the radiator, so I can't call a manufacturer and the plumber just says this will go away. Does anybody have any idea what this is or any advice? Thanks.
The plumber said this is "new radiator smell," that it comes from oil inside the radiator around the threading (something like that). I have also heard it could be the primer. the plumber said 24 hours, a plumbing supply house told me two weeks for this smell to go away. Meanwhile, I cannot run these radiators at night when we are in the bedrooms sleeping cause it smells so bad.... and it's the middle of winter! I don't think I can stomach this one more day and I don't know what to do. I tried scrubbing the radiator with lemons, soap, cleaning sprays... it is not working. There is no name on the radiator, so I can't call a manufacturer and the plumber just says this will go away. Does anybody have any idea what this is or any advice? Thanks.